In here are assorted unfinished projects, most of which don’t really require that much work. What am I saying, and who am I trying to kid? I actually have no idea what all is buried in that basket, but I do know it contains a just-needs-seamed BSJ and a just-needs-sleeves-and-turtleneck sweater for me. I guess we’ll just have to explore it together sometime soon, won’t we?

As an aside, the checker got a little flummoxed, apparently distracted by that fella beside me, and she was trying to use a vase sitting on the counter as a barcode scanner. She couldn’t figure out why her register wasn’t working, LOL! I told her I wouldn’t tell anyone, but I don’t figure the blog counts, right?

If you remember, and I really don’t expect you to, it is the pinwheel sweater I started for myself back last summer, when everyone else was playing wii games. I think I am almost done with the knitting, and then there is the very fancy, very wide crocheted border. However, I am going to a fancy schmancy dancy on the 20th, which I discussed here, and I realized last Monday that this sweater would be about perfect for it, if I can get it done in time. Anybody wanna place a friendly wager? I’m really motivated, because I have nothing else remotely suitable, and if you click that link, you’ll see that the dress is very, very sleeveless.

I finished the 15th of the final 30 rows on it the night before I took this picture. My self imposed deadline for having it completed and in the mail is February 9th, and I think I’ll be done in time if I can tear myself away from Kingdoms of Camelot. Which is a blatant lie, because I can play KofC and still knit, muhahahahaha!

By the way, does anyone actually move around with their laptop? I have this Acer Aspire, and I do enjoy it, but I still find myself sitting in my room to use it. Except for today, when I have actually moved to the kitchen so I can monitor the washer and dryer. But I don’t think the thing has ever left the house.

I should be able to finish it the next time I pick it up. Please excuse the photos. This lighting in my room is not the best for capturing colors. Perhaps some Dolan lighting would fix me right up. Of course, opening the curtains might help a bit too, but that isn’t going to happen. I’m bombarded with florescent lighting every day at work, and I’ve finally figured out that this is why I like to keep my room so dark. It’s calming, and I like calming.

It’s knit from Lion Brand’s Vanna’s Glamour in Sapphire, and he picked the yarn himself, so don’t blame me that the man is now blue and sparkly. I used size 5 needles to make it, and for a textured yarn, it wasn’t half bad to knit.

I think I have figured out a way to post more regularly here. Since I really only have time to blog on Tuesdays, I’ve been prepublishing content over on my personal blog and that seems to be working out ok. So today, I am going to prepublish a series of notes about what’s in my immediate knitting list and we’ll see how that works for us.

Work continues on the sparkly blue hat. I knit on it for a few minutes each day, except for Sunday when I got just about sick of still doing ribbing and so I finished that. Does anyone know how much fingering weight yarn it takes to make a hat 22 inches by 10.5 inches? Is one ball enough? Not a big Opal sized ball, but a regular smallish ball.

I’m in the home stretch of the body of the shawl I am making as well, having completed 260 or the projected 320 rows. I have to find out the relative size of the recipient to be sure of that, and the person I need to speak to about it is to sick to be coherent just now.

Drama’s band is made from Plymouth Encore and the colorwork is doubled Trekking XXL in color 05. Stuntman’s band is some… uh… black yarn and the colorwork is doubled Lane Cervinia Forever Jaquard in color 230.

And as if mom-knit hats were the qooly equivalent of secure online backup, DaBaby has picked her yarn and thinks I should have started her hat instead of weaving in the ends on Stuntman’s. I am sure Batman will be lining up next!

Also, I have a picture of the Secret Christmas Knitting. I made stockings for Micheal, That One and That Boy. Merry Christmas fellas! Welcome to the fam.

And you know what else? When you are knitting for someone who is having a really bad time, it helps you to stop and consider your own life, doesn’t it?

Anyway, at the first of the year, I kinda told myself I was just gonna do one project at a time. Maybe a new one, and then finish an old one and so on, so on, so forth. Yeah, right. Most of my unfinished stuff is for myself, and I am just not that in to me right now. There will be time for that later.

The band is black, and I can’t remember the brand. It’s the same stuff I used for Diva’s hat. The colorwork is two strands of sock yarm held together, and again, I can’t remember the info. Such are the vagaries of knitting from the odd-ball stash. I want to say it is Mexicano from….uh, it’s on the tip of my fingers, really. I promise. Unfortunately, getting it to the keyboard is a fail. I wonder if it’s possible to find student loans that will pay for memory classes. Of course, I do have a lot of yarn to try to remember, now don’t I? This is why we now leave the ball band in the middle when we wind our yarn. Just sayin’. And that is the imperial we, of course!

Last night, I casted on Hat the Second for That One out of hideous acrylic fingerweight yarn in a sparkly blue that he admired in ACMoore. And today, I will cast on a pink concoction for Drama.